New York's Benoit Pouliot, center, commits a high sticking penalty against Montreal's Alexei Emelin, right, in the first period of Game 4 of Eastern Conference finals in New York on Sunday.

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Josh Thomson
Gannett

For two games at the Garden, Martin St. Louis, long one of the league's top goal scorers, had been stymied by a goalie he had probably never heard of two weeks ago. Dustin Tokarski had denied the 38-year-old winger time and again in Game 3 and again in Game 4, but St. Louis finally beat him when it mattered most.

St. Louis ended a tense game at the Garden when he whipped a wrist shot past Tokarski 6:02 into overtime to finish a 3-2 Rangers Game 4 victory over the Canadiens.

The Rangers now sit one win shy of their first appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals since 1994, and do it on the 20th anniversary of Mark ...